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BlueMassMed Final reportCross-Border and Cross-SectoralMaritime Information Sharingfor a control of activities at sea
BlueMassMed Final report
Cross-Border and Cross-SectoralMaritime Information Sharing
for a better knowledge and control of activities at sea
BlueMassMed is a project co-funded by the European commission (DG Mare)
in the framework of the Integrated Maritime Policy of the European Union.
It brings together 37 agencies responsible for maritime surveillance in the
6 Member States bordering the Mediterranean and its Atlantic approaches
(Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Greece and Malta).
BLUEMASSMED has a total budget of€ e3.720.524, with a maximum EU
contribution of €e2.191.389. The project started in December 2009 and the
final report will be presented to the European commission in October 2012.
project Management:Lead Partner: Secrétariat général de la mer (France)
Project Manager: Jean-Marie Van Huffel
Project Coordination: France Expertise Internationale
Contacts:
Email: [email protected]
Adress: 45 rue Linois - 75015 Paris - FRANCE
ContextStates entrust national agencies with the task of collecting,
analyzing and disseminating information in order to ensure
responsibilities and efficiency in maritime surveillance domain:
• Maritime Safety, Search and Rescue, Prevention of pollution
caused by ships, Maritime Security
• Fisheries control
• Marine pollution preparedness and response, Marine
environment
• Customs
• Border control
• General law enforcement
• Defence
a required cooperationTo improve their effectiveness, these actors need to seek and take
advantage of the opportunities for enhanced cooperation, both
nationally and internationally and mainly at European level.
• By sharing the maritime information they collect and operate,
• By identifying the gaps in present practiced exchanges,
• By buiIding the proper conditions for an enhanced exchange,
in safety and security.
Maritime surveillance actors will benefit from a shared situation,
in a systematic way, more comprehensive and accurate.
the projectBLUEMASSMED is the first European maritime surveillance
pilot project, whose objective is to catalyse and foster cooperation
in maritime information sharing between 37 State partners from
6 Member States (MS) bordering the Mediterranean Sea and
Atlantic approaches (Ellas, España, France, Italy, Malta, Portugal).
It is co-funded by the European Commission (DGMare) and the
partners.
France and Italy co-chair the Steering Group, where consensus
rule applies. The SG Mer (France) acts as the Lead Partner.
First project’s outcomes had a powerful footprint on the launch
and development of a European “Common information sharing
environment” which is an important enabling platform of the
European maritime policy (IMP), promoting sustainable uses of
the seas for the well-being of European citizens.
BLUEMASSMED was launched on January 2010 in Paris and
will terminate in Summer 2012.
Investing and Building phase:
The Users working group debated and defined the wishable and
possible fields for an enhanced cooperation on data and services
exchange, aiming at allowing partners to benefit from a better
overall situation, regularly spread among players, obeying rules of
distribution, traceability treatment clearly established and agreed,
providing security and confidence among partners. The Technical
working group defined the architecture of the BluemassMed SOA
(Service Oriented Architecture), translated the users expressed
needs, specified the modalities of exchange (data) and the services
to be delivered by the network. It also managed the test and the
interoperability of the BluemassMed network.
The Legal working group explored the legal environment of
present information management in the different MS and by
different actors, as well as potential constraints or obstacles and
the possible solutions.
A Communication working group took in charge the internal
necessary mutual knowledge and external promotion of the
project, then prepares the dissemination of results and proposals,
especially through a demonstration and a final report.
Experimentation and demonstration phase:
The partners have the responsibility to develop national
BluemassMed Demonstrators powered by their national maritime
information systems, aiming at building an operational BMM
cloud - a network allowing partners to exchange data and services
according to accepted rules - with the aim to establish and
maintain a “Shared Basic Common Maritime Picture” (SBCMP).
5 Primary nodes and more than 30 Secondary nodes constitute
the BMM network enabling them to “speek the same language”.
BlueMassMed Final reportCross-Border and Cross-SectoralMaritime Information Sharingfor a control of activities at sea
The BlueMassmed final reporting is constituted of this synthetic report, and an extract, augmented with 4 specific thematic reports on the domains Users, Legal, Technical, Experimentation where every details on the BMM realizations can be found.
A BlueMassMed film illustrates the challenges, the awaitings, the needed perpectives seen from actors.
• BlueMassMed - The film
• Final Report - Main document
• Final report - Extract
• Thematic Report
“A Users Operational Perspective”Annexes
- Annex I: BMM Operational View Document
- Annex II: BMM Exchange of Information Matrix
- Annex III: BMM Operational Scenario 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 et 6,
and scenario for demonstration
• Thematic Report
“Legal Obstacles and Solutions”Annexes
- Annex 1: Criminal Data
- Annex 2: Systems
- List of Legislation
Appendixes - National legal manual questionnaires
- Espana, France, Hellas, Italia, Malta, Portugal
• Thematic Report “A Technical Framework”Annexes
- Annex 1 to 5: CCTP BMM / System View as built /
Requirements Implementation Guidelines
- Integration Tests Plan and Test Procedures / WSDL v1.2.1 -
documented / Lessons Learned towards a techno solution for
CISE / CISE Implementation Plan and Cost Evaluation
Appendix
- BMM Space Systems and Services Final Report
• Thematic Report
“Information Exchange Network Experimentation”Annexes
- Annex 1: BMM Demonstration Executive Plan / User Data -
Scenarios Injections / Scenarios Simulation Events
- Annex 2: BMM Scenarios
- Annex 3: SBCMP Operational Assessment
- Annex 4: FRA 1 and 2
- Annex 5: Experimentation Recordings / Use Cases
- Annex 6: BMM VIP Demo, Scenario and Execution
Readers can find on the DVD inserted in this report :
table of contents
8 ExECUTIVE SUMMARy
11 INTRODUCTION
12 BMM OBJECTIVES AND METHODS
15 BMM ACHIEVEMENTS AND SUCCESS
16 BMM operational vision
17 Legal environment and conclusion
18 Technical choices
19 Experimental network
23 Experimentation and demonstration
26 LESSONS LEARNT
27 BMM RECOMMENDATIONS
30 FURTHER WORKS
32 PARTNERS
Glossary
AIS Automatic Identification System
BMM BlueMassMed : Pilot project dedicated to maritime surveillance cooperation
between actors in the Mediterranean Sea and its Atlantic approaches
CCTP Cahier des Clauses techniques et particulières
CWG Communication Working Group
DG Mare European Commission Directorate General Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
EC European Commission
EMSN European Maritime Surveillance Network
IMO International Maritime Organisation
GIS Geographic Information System
IMP Integrated Maritime Policy
LRIT Long Range Information and Tracking
LWG Legal Working Group
MARSUNO Maritime Surveillance North : Pilot project dedicated to maritime surveillance cooperation
between actors in the Northern European Maritime Spaces
NAF NATO Architecture Framework
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
NEP National Exchange Platform
SBCMP Shared Basic Common Maritime Picture
SOA Service-Oriented Architecture
TAG Technical Advisory Group from CISE
TWG Technical Working Group
UNCLOS United Nations Convention for the Law Of the Seas
UWG Users Working Group
PN Primary Node
VPN Virtual Private Network
SN Secondary Node
VMS Vessel Monitoring System
WSS SOA Web Service Security
XMSN experimental Maritime Surveillance Network
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lessons learntThanks to confidence building BMM opened the challenging
way towards maritime surveillance information exchange
cross border/cross sector between participating partners.
A resulting reflexion on national organisations occurred
among national MS partners.
BMM project developed a solution to allow the exchange
of added-value information about maritime domain, not
only ship positions and reports, respecting the European
treaties and the principles of subsidiary and proportionality.
BMM introduced and paid attention to the closing-up
between civilian and military agencies in a permanent way:
the cooperation among them has been improved greatly.
BMM maritime information sharing greatly helped
partners at the operational level in the transition towards
a “responsibility-to-share” information sharing policy,
however far from being achieved.
The identification at a very early stage of the users’
requirements was vital for the development of the project,
as well as an early narrow cooperation and coordination of
work between operational and technical actors has been an
obvious advantage.
Effectiveness of implementation was achieved through
the engagement of Member State’s administrations in
specifying requirements and implementing common
standardized solutions (for the first time the design authority
was kept within the MS).
exeCutive suMMaryThe BlueMassMed pilot project is one
first step toward achieving a better
cooperation between the numerous actors
of maritime surveillance (Member States’
administrations and European agencies
principally) and obtaining a better efficiency
of resources through the sharing of maritime
information, in a cross-sectoral and cross
border understanding and implementation.
BMM supports the process of creating a
Common Information Sharing Environment
(CISE) which will serve as decentralised
information exchange network interlinking
existing and future maritime surveillance
and tracking systems throughout EU and
connecting to third parties as well.
BMM has been developed with the intention
to demonstrate the willingness and the
capability of 37 partners involved in
maritime surveillance in one way or the
other, from six different EU Member States
littoral to the Mediterranean Sea and its
Atlantic approaches, while identifying
potential obstacles and the appropriated
solutions.
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A major result of BMM is that a basic harmonised front-
end has been developed and tested, able to adapt to any
given legacy system (or group of legacy systems) thanks
to the adopted Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
open approach. This basically decentralised approach
should be able to match with the information technology
improvements to come.
Another one is that independent but strongly coordinated
national processes of procurement can effectively be
chosen, with the priceless advantage brought by the
principle of subsidiarity. Despite the complexity of the
matter, and provided guidelines (operational requirements
and technical specifications) are comprehensive and
rigorous, the methodology is success able.
A thorough experimental demonstration (indeed an
exploration of possibilities and conditions offered or
required) deserves a long duration, as operators must
appropriate it in the course of their real day to day work.
Space component has been inserted for the first time in a
“structured way” in the experimental network and be given
an important role in a dual use.
Space assets have been considered as “contributors”,
together with not-space in situ assets, to Maritime
Surveillance.
Observation satellites could also be utilized in a “proactive
mode” (systematic and preventive, not only in emergency
situations).
recommendationsBMM Internal
It is recommended that the BMM Partners set a joint
agreement for the continued operation and validation of the
prototype experimental network, thus enhancing the value
of BMM approach in the future pre-operational validation
on a European scale. The will exists. The arrangement
must be found.
Data policy, access rights, confidential/sensitive
information management, as well as comprehensiveness,
detail and rigour of requirements and specifications need
to be completed in the future planning of continued
cooperation between partners, in relation with future
developments of CISE.
The outcomes of these works should equally find their
place in the continuation of the experimentation to be
conducted within the abovementioned agreement.
EU Wide
BMM, offering starting elements to the work of TAG,
permanently developed its work in parallel of CISE
conception. So BMM can be used as an embryo for CISE
and a seed for the future.
BMM implemented approach, based on an open,
decentralised and non-hierarchical architectural design,
appears as an optimal solution in the perspective of
reinforcing and expanding the maritime information
exchange:
• Harmonised cross-sectoral coordination framework on
hand of open platforms to share data, information and
services;
• Shared information directly controlled by the Member
States through a national BMM information platform,
• Waste of resources and duplication avoided.
BMM produced documents (operational vision, users’
requirements, data exchange matrix, high level system
requirements, technical specifications – System Views)
could be used as a reference for future development.
BMM achievements in matters of data exchange policy, data
distribution plan and access rights are limited. These areas
must be further developed, including space contribution.
BMM network is ready for the implementation of
multilevel data exchange policy.
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A narrow cooperation and coordination of work between
operational and technical actors at an early stage is
mandatory to ensure coherence and efficiency of the
development.
The major outstanding issues, deserving further dedicated
efforts before a full scale engineering solution can be
achieved, have been identified and described:
• the adoption of architectural solution for dual
use systems’ interconnection on CISE (enabling
exploitation of classified and security sensitive
information);
• the detailed design of the information protection
mechanism, user/service authentication, data access
and distribution policy, controlled by the Competent
Authorities;
• the definition of the operational governance at program,
network and configuration management level;
• the cooperative development of technological solutions
and standards in order to ensure a full life cycle
management of the future C.I.S.E. infrastructure.
It is recommended to thoroughly consider the space
component for maritime surveillance at EU level. In
particular the GMES and GALILEO programs’ dedication
to maritime surveillance should be enhanced.
From the technical perspective, major BMM
recommendations are:
• to keep the design authority at government/institutional
level along the next steps towards CISE;
• to further develop the BMM technical and operational
specifications for the operational implementation of
CISE (final design, integration and adoption of CISE
components);
• to develop and validate a full scale engineering
prototype, implementing all the components, services
and capabilities defined in the technical specifications
(system view) up to a pre-operational level to proof the
operational added value through a wide cross sectoral
and cross border scenario.
Further harmonisation of maritime picture information
fusion techniques and standardisation of the related
operational procedures should be pursued at national
(inter-ministerial) level and then at EU level in order to
consolidate the Shared Basic Common Maritime Picture
(SBCMP) concept as the key feature enabling cross-
sectoral and cross-border effective interoperability.
Corresponding governance schemes at national and
EU level should be established in compliance with the
applicable operational and legal constraints.
Further development of more finalized services for
security requirements (authentication, confidentiality,
integrity, availability, traceability) are required, as well
as the enrichment of common services (alerts, vessel of
interest, event common following, etc.).
It is highly recommended that the European agencies
working on the maritime domain are associated at their right
place to the further development of maritime surveillance
at European level, in particular as service providers.
On the spatial domain, it is recommended :
• European institutional space assets to be fully recognized as “contributors” to maritime sur-veillance and reference to them be made in the framework legislation establishing CISE.
• BMM and MARSUNO communities to be consi-dered for consolidation of GMES Maritime Sur-veillance Security Services.
• to realize a common coherent spatial platform for Maritime Surveillance at European level with the purpose of integration and increase of value of the European infrastructures (GMES and Galileo) and national institutional assets of Observation,
• European end users, with the support of the space community, to define an institutional approach to set up an European strategic AIS asset that allows a complete and worldwide cartography of ships.
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This main report sets out the synthesis of the BMM Pilot
Project. So, for more detail on a specific issue, the reader
can refer to the thematic reports listed above.
IMP was born 2007 with the Blue Book. From the right
origin, Governance, Knowledge and Surveillance were
recognized as three pillars giving the fundaments for a
useful, coherent and efficient integrated policy which
aim is a fair and beneficial use of seas and oceans for the
benefit of the European citizens. A direct demand and
prerequisite in that perspective is safety, security as well
as sustainability for the seas and oceans, a treasure for
mankind.
The sea is a space of liberty and freedom. It is a vast and
rich space where the humanity will find and build a part
of its future. Given the geo-strategical importance and
specificity of the seas and the state of the international law
of the seas, States are prominent actors.
By nature, by history, by their legal status, seas and oceans
belong to the geostrategic sphere of States, and their
sovereignty is there directly addressed.
The seas also are an area where illegal or criminal activities
are expanding. This reinforces the duties the States have
with regard to the seas.
More over maritime surveillance enhanced cooperation is
an integrating factor for the European Union, as the States
are prior concerned and responsible entities, after the
legal status of seas and oceans (UNCLOS). Thus the main
way toward a proper cooperation must involve primarily
the Member States and especially their actors in charge.
In parallel, as many initiatives are already underway for
years, it is paramount to keep an objective of coherence
building in order to proceed safely and efficiently and to
obtain clarity and complementarity instead of competition
and duplication.
A difficulty for intensifying cooperation in integrated
maritime policy in general and maritime surveillance in
particular rests in the various natures and levels of Member
States organization for maritime affairs.
Within each Member State of the European Union, a
number of governmental agencies, each for its part of
responsibility, collect and analyze information. Single-
agency, single-state or combined interventions need
sharing of information and intelligence between, and not
only, the European Member States or their agencies. While
exchange mechanisms of sectoral nature or in limited ways
already exist, a wide and commonly used mechanism has
not yet been established to allow improvements on data
exchange quality and efficiency terms.
For the last decade, Administrations in Europe have
developed their own capacities (maritime surveillance
systems, data basis, statistics tools, threat analysis tools,
etc.), and European agencies are developing sectoral
capacities based on centralisation of information owned
by the administrations belonging to the main sectoral
communities. Thanks to all these new capacities a huge
amount of information is now existing but not available
and under-used.
introduCtion
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BMM oBjeCtivesand Methods
The BlueMassMed pilot project is a step (built by a great
number of Mediterranean basin and its Atlantic approaches
States’ maritime surveillance actors) toward achieving the
aims to obtain a better efficiency of resources through the
sharing of maritime information and a better cooperation
between the numerous actors of maritime surveillance
(Member States’ administrations and European agencies
principally) in a cross-sectoral and cross border
understanding and implementation.
The objective of BMM is to determine orientations and
solutions (organisation, technical and legal solutions),
for defining and realizing the best environment for this
information sharing.
BMM’s central perspective is to feed the applied works to
reach at best an efficient European model for cooperation in
information sharing use and beyond (maritime surveillance
operations efficiency and economy), strongly contributing
to start and development of works toward CISE.
One major outcome can be secured as a principal baseline
for the future: the complexity of this domain is such,
that the solutions cannot be else than decentralised in a
common environment, which bigger advantage is to place
the States and their actors in front of their responsibility,
as they have, from the sovereignty point of view as well as
from that of their internal organization, the means and the
ability to decide. So subsidiarity applies especially in the
maritime domain.
The guideline of the project has been to mobilize partners
around a concrete and practical experimentation of info-
sharing in order:
• to test the capacity of project partners to exchange
surveillance information relating to Maritime safety-
search and rescue-prevention of pollution caused
by ships-maritime Security, Fisheries control,
Marine pollution preparedness and response-marine
environment, Customs, Border control, General law
enforcement and Defence;
• to determine the extent to which the project partners are
potentially able to set up an exchange of information
mechanism at a cross sectoral and cross border level
that is viable and durable in time;
• to identify the legal, administrative, technical obstacles
that may hinder the exchange of the above mentioned
information on a long-term basis;
• to identify on the basis of the acquired experience in
exchanging the information, best practices and/or
legal adjustments needed to overcome the obstacles
identified;
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• to determine the extent to which this cooperation
between the project partners has resulted in added
value – both in qualitative and quantitative terms;
• in particular, to determine the extent to which this
cooperation enhances exchanges of information that
already takes place between inter alia the Member
States, EU Agencies and international organizations.
4a Communication strategy, tools and actionsThe aim was mainly to strengthen the internal
communication between all the partners as well as
externally with the maritime surveillance community and
other third parties interested in the project, and the public.
Several tools were designed, built and used:
• A website launched the 13th of January 2010 (www.
bluemassmed.net), regularly updated with news,
articles and pictures related to the project’s activities;
• 2 video clips for the promotion of the project were
available to all partners for their own need and
communication. It was in particular shown to the
public in Euronaval 2011;
• Leaflets: two types of leaflets were designed for
distribution in several conferences and workshops
where actors of the project participated;
• An interactive working space (realized by FEI) platform
facilitated the data, information and documents
exchange between all the partners and proved as a very
useful tool;
• Newsletters: four were designed and distributed
internally giving the project’s partners and participants
updating and common knowledge on BMM’s
improvements;
• Social networks: a Facebook and a Twitter accounts
were designed at the beginning of 2012.
• Film and Public Conference : organized in Brussels on 7
June 2012, the European BluemassMed Demonstration
Conference allowed a numerous audience to watch a 17
minutes film about BMM developments and promises
4B partners’ willingness to exchange informationThe prior focus in the working groups was to provoke,
assess and foster the availability of Partners.
As a result:
• Partners are willing to exchange data, additional
information and services. A large part of the
information is already available;
• Partners want to decide when to share or not to share
(time, space, subject, etc.);
• Partners want to exchange “basic data” in order to
obtain a “Shared Common Basic Maritime Picture”
(SCBMP);
• Partners are willing to exchange services that provide
higher efficiency to their maritime surveillance and
eventual intervention operations;
• Partners are open to share more information and
especially sensitive information with some selected
partners, on the basis of control and security rules.
4C study the legal frameworkFrom the identification of the data to be exchanged and
the BMM operational view, from the elaborated technical
answer towards a network allowing the exchange, the
issues to be explored from a legal perspective are to be
analyzed and evaluated.
A common legal point of view between BMM member
states has to be looked for and established taking into
account the point of view of all participating Member
States’ agencies, European agencies, industry and
environmental stakeholders.
The national and European data protection authorities have
been questioned about experimental demonstration which
encompasses real and fake data exchanges.
Subsequently, identification of significant obstacles and
proposal of recommendations to improve the overall legal
framework have to be done; and an appropriate legal
framework that addresses the most relevant legal issues
concerning the interconnection of data systems has to be
put in place.
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4d sBCMp conceptA Shared Basic Common Maritime Picture (SBCMP) is a
single identical display of relevant maritime information
shared by the nodes involved in BMM network. It
contains the basic tracks original provided by the national
maritime surveillance systems feeding the BMM national
information platform (primary node). By a systematic
sharing of these basic tracks between the primary nodes,
any BMM Partner can access to the SBCMP on any
primary node’s web portal. So, the access to the SBCMP is
the basic common service offered by BMM experimental
system on any node.
For actors belonging to various users’ communities,
building, feeding and exploiting the SBCMP in their
operational rooms and for the benefit of the accomplishment
of their own missions constitutes a powerful mean aiming
at experiment, test and assess the BMM concept for
information exchange. SBCMP is the comprehensive
background information database which offers global
vision and own correlation capacity to every BMM partner.
It also facilitates collaborative planning and assists all
echelons to achieve situational awareness.
Therefore, establishing and maintaining a SBCMP for
a sufficient period of time is an important asset of the
experimental demonstration.
4e define operational servicesFrom the analysis of the Users’ requirements, in compliance
with a service oriented architecture approach, the objective
is to offer the appropriate services to the BMM community.
These services are going to be separated into two categories:
• Core services, corresponding to essential basic
technical mechanisms;
• Common services, corresponding to operational
services.
4F define an appropriate technical architectureThe issue is to carry out a technical study aiming at
specifying the appropriate technical requirements for
designing and realising the BMM experimental network,
taking into account the following aspects:
• the BMM experimental demonstration will be fed by
some legacy national maritime surveillance systems
giving real tracks;
• it will also be fed by fake data related to the operational
scenarios;
• the BMM technical architecture has to ensure the
participation of partners who don’t have any legacy
maritime surveillance system. So, by an appropriate
technical mean, they have to get access to the BMM
services.
4G Build an experimental systemThe issue is to design and realize a single experimental
system ensuring the interoperability between the involved
BMM national information platforms and enabling the
BMM partners to play the experimental demonstration.
4h prove the relevance by making a demonstrationThe experimental demonstration process shall offer an optimal harvest of lessons learnt, with the following objectives:
• place partners in capacity of practicing systematic data exchanges, from basic upwards into sensitivity, and benefit from adding value services;
• exercise of info exchange, gradual in complexity, both cross-sectoral (including internal cooperation) and cross-border (and cross-users communities), with the aim of added value to participants by running realistic and pertinent scenarios;
• test and improve the requirements for the best practices in sharing and exchanging data and services during an in-depth demonstration, based on realistic scenarios which focus on activities carried out by the partners in their mission;
• establish and maintain a SBCMP for a sufficient period of time;
• culminate in the process of identifying and solving obstacles;
• disseminate the lessons learnt, estimate the investment and life cycle costs.
In order to conduct an adequate demonstration, the operational and technical requirements are to be streamlined appropriately, considering the purposes and
the available time for this demonstration to occur.
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BMM aChieveMentsand suCCess
Gather a large operational communityBMM was the first opportunity to gather 37 partners from
6 EU Member States acting in various operational sectors.
The major sectors related to state action at sea, from civilian
and military bodies, were represented. So BMM gave
these partners the opportunity to confront their operational
culture in order to arouse cooperation’s interest.
Promote information exchange and obtain cooperation willingnessBMM initiated the basis of a future cooperation in state
action at sea. The information exchange willingness seems
to have made progress despite the initial reserves.
Survey the legal present and future legal environmentThe BMM Legal Working Group (LWG) was tasked
to identify the potential legal barriers to data exchange,
maritime and personal, between the different authorities or
agencies of the MS and propose legal recommendations to
overcome these conflicts.
Define a relevant technical architectureThe network centric, two-level and service oriented
architecture proposed by BMM offers the following
advantages:
• interoperability between national independent systems;
• easy access to services to any authorised agency, even
if it doesn’t own any maritime information system;
• flexibility and scalability;
• possible standardisation of many services using open-
source.
Even though far from a real standardisation, BMM
pilot project succeeded in providing several technical
specifications foreshadowing future standards.
Build an experimental systemBMM managed to build an experimental system which
allowed partners to realize the feasibility of information
exchange, to assess its added-value.
Manage to make a public demonstrationBMM managed to make a public VIP demonstration to a
large audience in order to prove the relevance of BMM
orientations and recommendations.
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The operational partners involved in BMM belong to
different national authorities responsible for different
functions contributing to the state action at sea like
Maritime safety and Security (including Search and
Rescue, and prevention of pollution caused by ships),
Fisheries control, Marine pollution preparedness and
response (and Marine environment), Customs, Border
control, General law enforcement, Defence.
These operational partners are already used to collect and
analyse maritime information for their own purposes. In
their operational context, some of them may also exchange
information with their foreign colleagues dealing with
the same operational sector. But a systematic information
sharing process is not usual for them, even inside their own
sector. And a cross-sector and cross-border information
sharing process is far from their operational approach.
So BMM operational vision (see “Maritime surveillance
in the European Union”, “BMM thematic report”,
“A Users operational perspective”) is based on the
promotion of the added-value resulting in sharing maritime
information both at cross-sector and cross-border levels,
starting with a shared basic common maritime picture
(SBCMP) enabling to collaboratively enhance maritime
situational awareness. Exchanging on a case by case
basis sensitive information among a restricted community
like operational alerts for instance, is also part of BMM
operational vision.
During the experimental demonstration, the BMM
prototype showed pragmatically to the operational users
that enhanced cross border and cross sector cooperation
and information sharing is possible (even between civilian
and military bodies). So, even though the establishment
of operational standard processes and procedures enabling
effective information sharing is required and the protection
of information shared on the basis of agreed access rights
remains to be developed, this operational vision is now
shared by the BMM partners, considering that many
challenges and risks our nations face at sea are transnational
in nature, and in most cases are interconnected.
An important feature of the BMM operational vision is
the subsidiarity principle: monitoring and surveillance
activities at sea are carried out under the responsibility
of Member States and BMM allows full ownership of the
process of sharing information.
BMM operational vision
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The most relevant legal issues relate to personal data
and confidentiality. An unavoidable amount of maritime
reporting and surveillance data is qualified, in the national
legal framework of MS, as confidential. The importance
of addressing these questions properly, giving them the
importance that they claim, is clearly the main concern and
outcome of this study.
The entire block of legal dispositions which focuses on
information exchange and personal data was examined, as
well as the statutory provisions contained in the Lisbon
treaty, the constitutional texts and principles of the several
MS, the relevant European legislations and provisions
(directives/regulations/framework decisions) and also
the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (Montego Bay
Convention) and several International Agreements.
Soon identified main obstacles were studied and analyzed.
First, the legal mechanisms concerning data protection
(criminal and non criminal) differ from State to State and
this matter of fact constitutes an obvious barrier to achieve
the desired standardization and consolidation of sharing
procedures, notwithstanding the existence of Directive
95/46/EC Parliament and Council of 24 October 19951.
LWG goal was to identify a common pool of legal
constraints, to obtain a common global picture of
prohibitions and possibilities, meaning to obtain the
specific legal context of data sharing.
Another legal obstacle that the LWG has to do with was
the extent and opacity of the core of fundamental had
rights, within the na-
tional constitutional
provisions. A clear
and shared view for
a consensus regar-
ding the possibility of
compression or limi-
tation of important
legal and constitutio-
nal principles (lega-
lity, proportionality
and the right to pri-
vacy, among others)
appears quite difficult.
The LWG identified
that the purpose behind the sharing of data – personal data,
professional/commercial secrecy, rights of access, data
security policy and access to public sector documents – is a
fundamental pre-requisite of any data sharing mechanism;
therefore, the purposes of exchange must be clearly and
precisely described (illegal trafficking, immigration, etc.).
It is also necessary for the MS to identify the entities and
agencies with responsibilities of law enforcement in the
maritime environment able to carry and promote the inter-
state exchange of information.
In summary the LWG concluded that, despite of the
existing and identified legal constraints concerning data
use (and sharing), it is indeed possible to create an actual
practice of exchanging information in a timely manner, so
as to enable prevention and suppression of illicit activity.
To do so, trust between partner agencies in other MS is
mandatory.
More over, personal data (natural or legal person) or
commercial data inserted in criminal proceedings which
are still in trial procedures, therefore not final, cannot be
exchanged between the MS, without permission of the
competent judicial authority.
Beyond these cases, the LWG believes there are no legal
restrictions on the exchange of personal data between law
enforcement authorities of the MS, if made for purposes of
criminal prevention, safeguarding the rights of nationals,
residents and commercial, under the consent of the
responsible data protection authorities.
1. “Directive on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data”.
legal environmentand conclusion
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a network centric architectureThe following points have been considered:
• national maritime surveillance systems are the main
sources of maritime information;
• national systems are not interoperable;
• cost-efficiency and not burdening the day-to-day work
of users leads to avoid building a new or additional
system dealing with maritime information.
Thus BMM has resolutely based its technical work
on a network centric architecture allowing an adapted
connection to the legacy –or in development– national
maritime surveillance systems.
a two-level architectureThe BMM experimental network obeys two-level
architecture:
• The Primary Nodes (National Exchange Platforms,
NEP): the first level consists of the capacity to provide
maritime information and to offer added-value
services to BMM community. These Primary Nodes
are fed by legacy maritime surveillance systems from
participating agencies and are connected to a wide
area network (SSL https protocol on Internet), called
xMSN;
• The Secondary Nodes (Partner Exchange Platform):
the second level consists of the capacity to access to
the maritime information and to the services offered
by a NEP (PN). Through some of the services, the
operational user can also be active by adding data,
tracks and information. These Secondary Nodes are
simple PC with a web-browser connected to the xMSN
and accessing to the portal of one of the Primary Nodes.
Any authorised agency (from a Member State or from
an European agency) can easily use such secondary
node capacity.
The main advantage of this architecture is the separation
between legacy maritime surveillance systems and the
exchange mechanism. So the legacy maritime surveillance
systems can follow their own life-cycle (depending on
national considerations) while the exchange mechanism
can implement the supplementary evolutions. Beyond
implementing services, the Primary Node plays the role
of a technical interface: one side linked to the involved
national maritime surveillance system, the other side
linked to the BMM network (in the future, to the European
Maritime Network).
So Primary Nodes become in fact “National Exchange
Platforms”.
soa-based solutionWeb Service Security Service Oriented Architecture
(WSS SOA) paradigm allows secured connection of
disparate systems and networks, developed and managed
by government with respect to various sectors, through the
adoption of a common semantic and the implementation of
a harmonized set of information services.
SOA main added values are:
• flexibility and scalability: modifying, adding, removing
a service, independently from the others, is always
possible;
• possible standardisation of many services using open-
source.
technical choices
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introduction, initial conceptThe idea initially followed by BMM project was based on
the design and the realisation of a unique experimental
system. These were the main motivations justifying this
approach:
• limit the complexity and the technical risks;
• facilitate the technical coordination between the
Partners involved in developing a Primary Node;
• all the Primary Nodes offer the same services;
• allow the SBCMP service to be really common (and
not only shared).
The BMM requirements were written following the NAF
methodology and the decided architecture principles.
implementation and reorientationA call for tender for designing, realizing, installing the
BMM network and supporting its experimentation, has
been carried out. Three consortia submit an offer.
At the end of the examination process, the needed
consensus for decision was impossible to find by the BMM
Steering Group. The call for tender has been abandoned.
Therefore a new orientation was adopted, keeping the
ambition to build an experimental system and to make a
demonstration:
• the Partners willing to implement a Primary Node have
to develop it on their own;
• each of these Partners have to appoint a Primary Node
technical manager who takes the responsibility to
achieve the realization of its node in coordination with
the other Primary Nodes;
• as there is no single assigned industry to coordinate the
development, this coordination is on the shoulder of
the Primary Node technical managers. To help them,
an external technical coordinator has been contracted
by the project;
• a time extension is needed (DG MARE granted the
project an eight-month time extension).
Based on the developed baseline design, starting from June
2011, five partners have independently commissioned to
different (groups of) private companies, under a strong
coordination process, the implementation of prototype
nodes integrated into a BMM demonstration network
(xMSN – Experimental Maritime Surveillance Network)
that has been tested and validated in the latter part of the
BMM project.
So, as a result, a BMM demonstration network has been
set-up, composed of 5 Primary Nodes (Italy, Spanish Navy,
Spanish Guardia Civil, France, Portugal) connected to
over 30 national maritime surveillance systems managed
by different authorities, linking over 100 agencies and
competent authorities able to access information and to
share resources through BMM web services provided
to each partner by Primary Nodes accordingly to his
credentials and privileges.
The technical coordination was the main difficulty to face
because:
• the different Partners involved had not exactly the same
planning;
• each Primary Node was driven by one national selected
industry. So the design of the BMM experimental
system suffered the involvement of five different
industries, committed by five different contracts and
coming from four different countries;
• the BMM specifications (System View, in NAF
methodology), initially written for awarding a single
consortium dealing with all the nodes, appeared
too open, not precise and detailed enough. So the
realization of the five different Primary Nodes became
heavier and longer.
A powerful coordination between the Primary Node
technical managers and an external technical coordinator
permitted to succeed in interoperability between all the
BMM nodes.
However, this difficulty caused two inconveniences on the
experimentation:
• the demonstration had to be carried out on a reduced
perimeter
• the confidential information’s exchange process has not
been studied.
experimental network
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Building the experimental system
CFCA
BMM Network
BMM NETWORKOperational Node Connectivity Description
JRCEMSA
EDA
FRONTEXGreece
SN
WebServer
Partner
DAVA
WebServer
PN
PN
WebServer
SASEMAR
GuardiaCivil
NavySpain
SN
WebServer
Partner
Malta
MRCC
MONBrest
COFGC
MOCTOULON NOC
TOULON
DNRED
Customs
BorderPolice
PN
WebServer
FranceDIISM
Immi-gration
DrugFinanza
Customs
Difesa
TransportAgriculture
Environ-ment
CoastGuard
PartnerPN
Italy
WebServer
PN
PN
IPTM POLICE
COMAR
SCSSIDGAIcCSEF
ASAE
PO AF
SIVICPortugal
experimental system descriptionThe categorisation between primary and secondary nodes is explained in the previous chapter.
Draw a scheme of the experimental system, mentioning the legacy national maritime information systems connected to
the primary nodes.
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Users WG & Legal WG
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Scenarios fine tuning(vignette/interactions)
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End UserManual
OperationalUsers
Mobilization
OperationalUsers
Familiarization
Produce needed Fake Data &implement vignettes/interactions
DetermineData Model Connectivity & Basic System tests
Full System tests & SecondaryNodes access verification
Capability enhancement
Technical update andvignettes refinement
Check operational requirementswith running vignettes
Initial Operational Check
Continuous Demo(scenarios 0 + events
Scenarios/Vignettes/Scriptdefinition for VIP Demo
Medium Operational check
Final Operational check
Italian National Demo
VIP Demo (EU)
Evaluation& Report
Technical WG
BMM Partners only
Work package and global scheduleThe BMM Steering Group approved the work packages summed up in the following diagram.
The corresponding schedule, between October 2011 and June 2012, is shown in the following “demo master plan”.
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Built-in testsConnectivity tests and basic system tests
The connectivity issue included the following tasks:
• Set up the communication network: make sure that
every node has an appropriate Internet access, collect
the IP address plan and allocate the url, appoint a key
management authority (if a VPN is used) and distribute
the keys for all the nodes, etc. ;
• Peer-to-peer tests in groups of nodes (Ping each PN
from all the other PN and all the SN);
• Sub-Net tests for the dependant secondary nodes
(unnecessary for independent secondary nodes: MT,
GR and FR secondary nodes).
The basic system tests aimed to verify the following
implementation:
• Implementation of Basic System:
- protocol stack (http / https ; soap);
- application server middleware (JDK, Glassfish,
MySQL);
- webserver middleware;
- mapserver middleware;
- connection tests at SOAP level;
- connection tests at mapserver level.
• Implementation of BMM Data Model (xML Schemes)
- population of PN databases with sample data;
- data exchange tests through xSD.
Full system tests
All kind of nodes were involved in the full system tests.
So they began by supplying all the Secondary Nodes with
the detailed process to connect to any Primary Node. They
aimed to verify the following implementation:
• Web Portal & Web GIS:
- implementation of Web Portal & Web GIS
- data exchange tests through Web Portal & Web GIS,
- testing of Core Collaboration Services available
(VTC, Mail, VoIP, etc).
• Identity & Access management
- implementation of PN Identity & Access management;
- implementation of shared LDAP directory;
- Login Access Tests from local user;
- Login Access Tests from remote user
(through web portal).
• Service Registry
- implementation of Service Registry
UDDI;
- Service Access Tests from local user;
- Service Access Tests from remote user
(through web portal).
The full system tests also included, in two successive steps,
the verification of the activation of the Core Services and
the Common Services.
The Core Services include:
• Web Portal and WebGIS (Community services);
• Identity & Access Management (Information
Assurance Services)
• Service Registry Management (Service Management
& Control services)
Activating the following functions:
• USM – User Management;
• USA – User Authentication;
• SEM – Service Management;
• SEA – Service Authorisation;
• POM – Portal Management;
• MPM – Map Management.
The Common Services include:
• Track data / information exchange;
• Regional correlation;
• Wide Area Rapid Mapping;
• Data Augmentation Service;
Activating the following functions:
• TSG - Time Stamping & Geo Reference;
• TRM - Track Management;
• TEx - Track Exchange;
• TRS - Track Synchronisation;
• TAC - Track Association & Correlation;
• RMM – Rapid Mapping Management.
Secondary Nodes access verification
This task was performed before the end of the Full system
tests, as SN belong to global BMM experimentation
mechanism.
Capabilities enhancement phase
This capability enhancement phase was dedicated to
solving problems detected mainly during the preparation
phase, but also at implementing additional services (such
as data protection and security management, inter alia…).
This phase has last until the end of the experimentation.
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ContentTwo major steps have to be considered:
• the continuous experimentation phase;
• the VIP demonstration, held in Brussels on 7 June
2012.
The first step offers the opportunity:
• to elaborate and maintain the SBCMP during several
significant periods of time;
• to technically adjust the services;
• to play operational scenarios.
The second step was the event giving the opportunity to
show the use of the BMM network to a large audience and
to demonstrate its efficiency.
The following paragraphs detail the content of these two
steps.
operational scenariosInitially six scenarios have been imagined to provide
situations to test all the users’ requirements and services.
Additionally, they were designed to provide the opportunity
to all partners to take a place in the demonstration and to
ensure that all sectors were represented. More over they
were also shaped as to allow the potential obstacles to be
“sailed around” and evaluated from an operational practice.
In a second step, three of them were developed, taking into
account the principle to involve all sectors (the seven of
CISE) represented in BMM. These three scenarios have
been played during the continuous experimentation’s
phase.
As the time was pressing and for practical reasons, only
one scenario, mixing the three previous ones, was fully
developed to support the VIP Demonstration.
experimentationand demonstration
Refer to “A Users operational perspective report” for more details on the scenarios.
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operational preparationThe experimentation was based on realistic scenarios,
one “day to day life” (Scenario zero, utilised during the
continuous experimentation period) and 5 simulated events
to provide opportunities enough to test all the services.
Those main events at sea were run on top of the actual
Shared Basic Common Maritime Picture.
Those main events were developed either simultaneously
or consequently (depending on the cases) to conform the
overall scenario.
Each of the main events (vignettes) had an associated
“list of injections” including the details of all the data
and services to be exchanged (date and time, data or
service requested) as well as consumer/requesting partner,
producer/providing partner.
Each primary node had the complete “list of injections”.
The list of data and services to be exchanged has been
elaborated taking into account the limitations imposed
to the different PN according to the paragraph 2.2 of the
“Technical Specifications for the BMM nodes participating
in the BMM demonstration”.
The scenarios (“main events”, with their associated “Lists
of Injections”, coming on top of the SBCMP) complied
with the following conditions:
• related to most of the activities envisaged within the
responsibility of the different involved partners;
• involving all the Primary Nodes, and the Secondary
ones as much as possible;
• providing room enough to test the BMM Common
Services implemented in the xMSN (from the
specification documents) and the adequacy of
Information Exchange Requirements (from the BMM
Operational View 2.0).
Any opportunity to check the system against real world
situations was to be seized.
experimentation conductOperational familiarization
The initial training of the technical and operational actors
in view of operating the nodes (PN or SN) has been made
under national responsibility following the progress of
BMM network building.
Continuous experimentation (Scenario 0 and events)
The continuous experimentation phase was conceived
as an open period (as long as possible with respect with
the global experimentation time period) where successive
experimentations slots have been organised and dedicated
to specific purposes.
The pre-requisite for this was that the BMM network
remains available throughout, and that the BMM partners
involved their operational human resources for the purpose
of the experimentations required.
Playing the different written scenarios (from scenario zero
to the various activities oriented scenarios) has taken place
during this period.
Public Event (Brussels 7 June 2012) :
The BluemassMed European Demonstration Conference
was held on June 7th in Brussels at Brussels 44. The main
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purpose of the conference was to introduce the inputs and
outputs of the BMM project as well as discuss possible
opportunities for cooperation in the future.
The conference gathered more than 300 people from
public institutions – Member States, European Union –
and from the private sector. A 15 mn movie, tailor made
for the event, was showcased to the audience in order to
demonstrate tangible achievements of the BMM project.
After the opening remarks addressed to the floor by the
project director and Commissioner Damanaki’s video
speech, the first round table entitled “Need of cooperation
for enhanced efficiency, gaps that BMM addresses”
aimed at discussing the Integrated Maritime Policy at
the European level. The three speakers were Mr John
Richardson – former Head of IMP TF team, Mr xavier
de la Gorce – former SG Mer and Almirante Fernando del
Pozo – Wise Pen.
The second round table “BMM answers: operational
and technical concepts, network, services, architecture,
experimentation” gathered a broad range of people from
the BMM project and from various administrations of the
6 countries involved in the project. An important number
of issues related to the implementation of the project
were addressed and the audience was able to consider the
operational and technical work done through the BMM
network.
The conference ended with a panel discussion on
the perspectives opened in EU maritime surveillance
organization. JM Van Huffel, Alejandro Abellan, Michel
Aymeric, Enrico Maria Pujia, Joao Fonseca Ribeiro, Lowri
Evans and Chris Reynolds participated in the discussion.
The challenging debate which took place between the
participants themselves and between the participants and
the audience opened up relevant perspectives for the future
of maritime surveillance in Europe.
Several performances of the demonstration scenario have
been given to successive groups of participants to the
conference in an exhibition room.
20 desktops manned by the 5 Primary Nodes (National
Exchange Platform) and other partner administrations
connected together allowed the audience to watch the
practical realization and functioning of the BlueMassMed
experimental Network.
The live demonstration showed how, in a typical scenario
of smuggling of illegal immigrants at sea, the cooperation
between competent authorities is considerably more
profitable and efficient through the real-time availability
of a shared maritime situation, ensuring the exchange
of services obtained from different and independent
technology platforms designed and developed in respect to
different European and national policy requirements. The
demonstration highlighted the high-level technological
capabilities offered by EU Member States and European
industries, and the unique ability to design a collaborative,
advanced and open architecture, ensuring the requested
interoperability to allow a real, effective and decentralized
European cooperation at sea.
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about added-valueAdded-value of cross-border and cross-sectoral information exchange is now shared by all the BMM partners.
Even though the BMM pilot project did not quantified it, maritime information exchange is likely to enable a better control of maritime surveillance expenditure by:
• taking benefit from a wider and better knowledge of the maritime situation by a better use of the intervention’s means;
• allowing collaborative planning between partners.
about industrial interest’s considerationsThe difficulties encountered by BMM with its call for tender for the experimental system procurement demonstrate the necessity to avoid a potential heavy impact of industrial competition on the process, likely to compromise the cooperation between foreign partners. Promoting a standardisation’s approach allowing any agency or any Member State to conduct its own development, and to deal with its own procurement process, constitutes an appropriate answer.
about subsidiarity principleIt is obvious that the maritime surveillance constitutes a complex field where really numerous “finesses” must be taken into consideration (legal status of the seas and oceans, legal arsenals of States and their actors, number of actors, etc.). So it is paramount to use as much as possible of the subsidiarity principle, the result of which often offers an easier solution to complexity, as it is dealt with within the States.
about legal issuesThere are no legal obstacles in the exchange of data within the BMM Member States regime. Every kind of
contribution of basic data (demonstration) but also sensitive data (police – customs, with the Swedish initiative as main instrument) is included;
Need to make a communication to the National Data Protection Authorities; data security policy- individual/ fundamental rights;
The BMM was successful in the fusion of basic civil-military data and vice-versa;
Issue of intellectual property rights of public entities are out of question in this project. What could be considered is the question of property on commercial data deriving from the private sector (especially fisheries);
“Need to know” principle requires a paradigm shift on behalf of the users’ communities in order to function in balance with principle of “responsibility to share”.
about technical issues• realize the harmonized cross-sectorial maritime situation;• assure the Member States / Nations to directly control
the management of shared information through a national BMM node;
• allow better use of European resources through direct financing of government that can most appropriately exploit the project results in terms of definition and harmonization of requirements and standardization and reuse of solutions;
• ensure the optimization of available information avoiding, at the same time, the waste of resources due to duplication of existing systems in use and the capability to provide cooperating neighbouring countries with an open platform to share data, information and services.
Whatever the need and the constraints, the technical topic is not an obstacle: solutions do exist! Many of them are available in open-source products.
BMM didn’t encounter insurmountable technical obstacle to realise its experimental system. Obviously, all the problems have not been studied by BMM and the way to a permanent cross-border and cross-sectoral cooperation is still long. But the main challenges consist in the legal constraints to take into account and the operational procedures to invent. Technical solutions will be found to satisfy these two major issues.
lessons learnt
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decentralised and two-level architecture BMM recommends keeping a network centric and two-
level architecture favouring national maritime information
systems interoperability and avoiding hidden industrial
interest’s considerations, likely to compromise the
cooperation between foreign partners.
Even though the demonstrative network was built mainly
around inter-ministerial Nodes (Italy, France, Portugal
and with some limitation Spanish Navy), the concept of
Sectorial and Multi-Sectorial Node was also exploited
in the BMM architecture. As an example, the Spanish
Guardia Civil Node was autonomously connected to
the BMM demonstrative network, and the Italian Coast
Guard clearly stated during the project their willingness to
directly connect in the future to BMM Network its National
VTMIS system, in order to improve information services
related to the Safety of Navigation, Traffic Control, SAR
coordination, Fisheries Monitoring and Environmental
Protection sectors.
BMM concept and the devised network architecture are
fully compatible and supporting such approach, and will be
able to provide in the future a unique and comprehensive
interoperable network that can be exploited at the same
time for sectorial and cross-sectorial information services
exchange among Competent Authorities and European
Agencies, according to a data distribution and access
policy that will result from the combination of constraints
enforced by:
• relevant sectorial coordination bodies, as far as the
sectorial dimension of the data exchange is concerned,
• national coordination bodies, as far as the sensitivity
and national security dimension of the data exchange
is concerned;
• future EU coordination bodies, as far as the general
cross-sectorial cross-border data exchange policy
is concerned (enforcing a “need-to-share” and
“responsibility-to-share” paradigm).
BMM project major outcome can be thought of as a basic
harmonised Front-End capable to adapt any given legacy
system (or group of legacy systems) to the C.I.S.E. network
thanks to the adopted SOA open approach.
BMM reCoMMendations
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Starting from such result, the main recommendation from
the technical perspective at the end of the BMM project
is to proceed with the project definition phase, based on
the achieved technical results, and keeping at government/
institutional level the design authority, in order to:
• develop and validate a full scale engineering prototype,
implementing all the components, services and
capabilities defined in the technical specifications
(System View) up to a pre-operational level compatible
with the need to proof the operational added value in
a sufficiently wide cross sectorial and cross border
scenario;
• develop the fully engineered technical and operational
specifications for the operational implementation of
C.I.S.E. (final design, procurement, integration and
acceptance of the C.I.S.E. components).
However in order to ensure full continuity of the BMM
technical approach and of cooperation model established
within the BMM project towards an integrated maritime
surveillance capability in Europe, the following major
recommendations can be drawn:
• in the short term (next 3-6 months), it is recommended
that the BMM Partner Nations set a joint agreement for
the continued operation and validation of the prototype
experimental network established by the Project;
• in the mid-term (6-12 months), it is recommended
that the BMM Partners promote further cooperation
initiative, open to a larger number of participants,
for the adoption of the BMM approach for the pre-
operational validation of the C.I.S.E. on an European
scale, as foreseen by the current DG Mare roadmap
for C.I.S.E. implementation. It is worth noting that
in this context the exploitation of the results of the
BMM project (the harmonised C.I.S.E. front-end) can
be extended to those systems that were not included
in the BMM project perimeters, and first of all to
those covered by the twin pilot project for the Baltic
MARSUNO.
Finally, it is recommended that:
• further harmonisation of maritime picture information
fusion techniques and standardization of the related
operational procedures is pursued at national
(interministerial) level by each PN and then at EU
level in order to consolidate the Shared Basic Common
Maritime Picture (SBCMP) concept as the key feature
enabling cross-sectorial cross-border decision support
capabilities on the C.I.S.E.;
• corresponding governance schemes at national and EU
level are proposed, in compliance with the applicable
operational and legal constraints.
standardization approachBMM recommend promoting a standardisation’s approach
allowing any agency or any Member State to conduct its
own development, and to deal with its own procurement
process.
legal conclusionsEuropean framework would be necessary to go on with
BMM communities, and wider, on a potential cross-sector/
cross-border aspect.
The possibility of exchanging data with third States (non
EU) should be envisaged.
Endeavour the possibility of a mixed public-private
agreement to handle the question of property on
commercial data deriving from the private sector.
There are no legal obstacles in the exchange of data within
the Member States regime. Every kind of contribution of
basic data (demonstration) is included, as well as sensitive
data (police – customs) empowered by the Swedish
initiative (EU Council Framework Decision 2006/960/
JHA).
A communication to the National Data Protection
Authorities is needed (data security policy- individual/
fundamental rights) in order to enable MS to exchange
data within the scope of maritime.
The BMM pilot-project was successful in the fusion of
basic civil-military data and vice-versa, meaning that it
reinforced the already existing military use of civil data,
as well as it provided the use of military data for civil
purposes.
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Issues of intellectual property rights of public entities are
out of question within the BMM pilot project, as well as
in the scope of maritime surveillance. However, issues
regarding the property on commercial data deriving from
the private sector may have to be considered under a
different approach, namely endeavour the possibility of a
mixed public-private agreement (e.g. USA precedent).
From “need to know” to “responsibility to share”“Need to know” principle in balance with “responsibility
to share” principle leads to a paradigm shift on behalf of
the user’s communities towards an increasing common
trust and awareness of the “interest to share” and its added
value.
satelliteIt is recommended to improve and extend the capacities
to share space information (images, AIS, etc.) of national
dual systems to be able to share information between
accredited institutional european users during joint
security operations. For this goal, it is proposed to define
an european common platform (adapted to the needs of
the maritime surveillance users) which interface the
existing national civil services and to upgrade the rules an
agreements in force accordingly.
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define a data distribution plan (ddp) in a cross-sectoral landscapeAs already said, defining operational procedures is
mandatory. A data distribution plan is part of them.
In compliance with the legal framework, this DDP will
determine the rules to apply in exchanging information,
considering the different categories of data (basic,
personal, commercial, sensitive, confidential) and the
operational sectors.
develop standards for data dissemination (format, exchange protocol), services, technical architecture (nodes)As they have been shared by all the 37 partners involved
in the project, BMM specifications can be considered as
a first step towards standardisation. Obviously, the way is
still long and this work has to be continued.
Further WorKs
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Considering BMM recommendations, an initial technical
framework has to be defined:
• data model;
• global network architecture,
• exchange protocol;
• authentication process, certificates;
• core and common services definition;
• any other relevant technical features.
Afterwards, this technical framework should follow a
configuration management process leaded by an “EU
Maritime Information Configuration Board” with the
participation of all EU involved agencies or Member
States. Working groups would conduct the change
proposals coming from the participating bodies and make
decision’s proposal to the Board.
deepen legal aspects: promote the definition of an european framework dedicated to Maritime information-sharingA European legislation should be defined to frame a
potential cross-sector/cross-border maritime information
sharing process.
The possibility of exchanging data with third States (non
EU) should be envisaged.
There’s a need to endeavour the possibility of a mixed
public-private agreement to handle the question of property
on commercial data deriving from the private sector.
Consolidate sBCMp concept at national levelBMM noticed that in many EU Member States the cross-
sector maritime information exchange was just emerging.
To ensure coherence with the cross-border SBCMP we
want to promote, a consolidation at national level of this
concept seems to be carried out.
study confidential data exchange processConfidential data exchange process has not been studied
by BMM. It supposes to control the dissemination and to
respect the national information’s security processes.
Studying technical solutions and assessing their
homologation by all the involved Member States’
competent authorities is mandatory.
services enhancementBecause of their experimental status and considering the
limited time allowed, improvement of BMM core and
common services are expected, especially:
• on security requirements (authentication, confidentia-
lity, integrity, availability, traceability);
• on enrichment of common services (alerts service,
vessel of interest service, event common following
service, etc.).
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ellas• Ministry of Citizen’s Protection, Hellenic Coast Guard
españa• Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación,
Secretaría de Estado para la UE, Dirección General de
Coordinación de Políticas Comunes y Asuntos
Generales UE
• Ministerio de Economía y Hacienda y
Administratciones Públicas. A.E.A.T., Departamento
de Aduanas e II.EE, Dirección Adjunta de Vigilancia
Aduanera
• Ministerio de Defensa, Armada Española, Estado Mayor
de la Armada
• Ministerio del Interior, Dirección General de la Guardia
Civil
• Ministerio de Agricultura, Alimentación y Medio
Ambiente, Secretaria General de Pesca, Dirección
General de Recursos Pesqueros y Acuicultura
• Ministerio de Fomento, Dirección General de la Marina
Mercante
FranCe• Secrétariat Général de la Mer
• Ministère de la Défense, état-major de la Marine
• Ministère de la Défense, direction générale de
l’armement
• Ministère du Budget, des comptes publics et de la
fonction publique, Direction générale des douanes et
droits indirects
• Ministère de l’Ecologie, de l’énergie, du développement
durable et de la mer, direction des affaires maritimes
• Ministère de l’Immigration, de l’intégration, de
l’identité nationale et du développement solidaire
• Ministère de l’Intérieur, de l’outre-mer et des
collectivités territoriales.
• Centre national d’études spatiales
italy• Agenza Spaziale Italiana
• Ministero della Difesa, Stato Maggiore Difesa
• Ministero della Difesa, Stato Maggiore Marina
• Ministero dell’Interno, Direzione Antidroga
• Ministero dell’Interno, Direzione Immigrazione
• Ministero Infrastrutture e Trasporti, Comando Generale
delle Capitanerie di Porto-Guardia Costiera
• Ministero Infrastrutture e Trasporti, Direzione Generale
Trasporto Marittimo
• Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze, Comando
Generale della Guardia di Finanza
• Ministero dell’Economia e delle Finanze, Agenzia delle
Dogane, Ufficio Antifrode centrale
• Ministero dell’Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e
del Mare Direzione Generale Protezione della Natura
• Ministero Politiche Agricole Alimentari e Forestali,
Direzione Pesca Marittima e Acquacoltura
Maltaۥ Office of the Prime Minister of Malta
portuGal• Direção-Geral de Política do Mar
• Marinha Portuguesa
• Força Aérea Portuguesa
• Guarda Nacional Republicana
• Serviço de Estrangeiros e Fronteiras
• Instituto Portuário e dos Transportes Marítimos
• Sistema de Segurança Interna
• Polícia Judiciária
• Direção-Geral da Autoridade Marítima
• Polícia Marítima
• Autoridade de Segurança Alimentar e Económica
• Autoridade Tributária e Aduaneira
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